Table 3.

Comparisons of Trauma Exposure and PTSD Across Three Similarly Aged Samples.

Trauma Type	Current Study Exposure % / PTSD %	Giaconia et al (1995) Exposure % / PTSD %	Breslau et al (2004) Exposure % / PTSD %
Interpersonal Violence	Direct combat: 22.7% / 16.9% Physically attacked/assaulted: 30.3% / 23.1% Threatened with weapon/ kidnapped/ captive: 26.5% / 24.2% Tortured/ victim of terrorists: 4.4% / 45.2%	Physically attacked/ assaulted: 6.5% / 12% Threat: 2.1% / 0%	Badly beaten: 10.1% / 13.3% Shot/stabbed: 14.2% / 9.4% Held captive/ tortured/ kidnapped: 2.1% / 20% Mugged/ threatened with weapon: 35.9% / 4.1%
Sexual Trauma	Rape: 17.5% / 39.7% Molestation: 27.2% / 32.8%	Rape: 2.1% / 50%	Rape: 5.6% / 46.2% Other sexual assault: 6.4% / 29%
Environmental Trauma	Life-threatening accident: 23.9% / 20.6% Natural disaster: 21% / 22.2%	Natural disaster: 1.3% / 0%	Serious car accident: 14.1% / 10% Other serious accident: 6.7% / 5.9% Natural disaster: 8.6% / 0% Life-threatening illness: 2.9% / 23.1% Child's life-threatening illness: 1.5% / 5.3%
Indirect Trauma	Witnessed someone injured/killed: 40.4% / 21.4% Shock because happened to someone close: 20.6% / 23.8%	Witnessed someone injured/killed: 12.8% / 8.2% Shock because happened to someone close: 13% / 14% Others' experience: 2.1% / 12.5%	Witnessed someone injured/ killed: 35.9% / 5.4% Discovered a dead body: 7.5% / 5.3%
Other Trauma	Other trauma: 14.8% / 28%	Other trauma: 1% / 50% Narrow escape: 1.6% / 0% Sudden injury or accident: 10.4% / 12.5%
Any traumatic event	Any traumatic event: 80.3% / 18.8%	Any traumatic event: 43% / 14.5%	Any traumatic event: 82.5% / 8.8%